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A Study on the Status of Drug Misuse and Abuse among Community-dwelling Elders (일개 지역사회 거주 노인의 의약품 오남용 실태)

  • Jung, Seo Haye;Han, Jong Sook
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Rural Health Nursing
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.3-11
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: This study was done to investigate the status of drug misuse and abuse in community-dwelling elders. Methods: The participants in this study were elders who were 65 years or over, and lived in ChungNam province. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. Results: All of the participants reported taking both prescription and non-prescription drugs, and 78.4% used two or more kinds of drugs. Of the elders, 74.5% reported that they did not receive any education about drug misuse and abuse. The mean score for behaviors related to drug misuse was 8.76. Conclusions: Results indicate that many elders take medicine frequently, but they do not have any knowledge about drugs and possible side effects. This lack of knowledge might mean that they continue to use and misuse prescription and non-prescription drugs. It is important that elders be provided with precise information about medicines.

Direct and Interaction Effects of Cognitive Bias and Anxiety on Credit Misuse among U.S. College Students (인지적 편향과 불안감이 미국 대학생의 위험 신용 행동에 미치는 영향과 상호작용효과)

  • Ahn, Sun Young;Kuo, Ya-Hui;Serido, Joyce;Shim, Soyeon
    • Human Ecology Research
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    • v.56 no.5
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    • pp.447-460
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    • 2018
  • This study determines whether certain cognitive biases (i.e., time preference, goal attainment expectation, unrealistic optimism, and overconfidence) and a specific negative mood-state (i.e., anxiety) influence credit misuse among college students. Data were collected from fourth-year college students (N=1,146), all of whom attended the same university in the southwest United States. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses and moderator analyses were employed to test the research hypotheses. Results showed that specific cognitive biases and anxiety were directly associated with credit misuse. We found that the longer goal attainment was delayed, the greater the students' unrealistic optimism concerning future income; in addition, the more overconfident they became with respect to financial knowledge, the more frequently they engaged in credit misuse. The study also showed that the higher a student's level of anxiety, the more often that students engaged in credit misuse. We also found that cognitive bias factors and anxiety interact to influence credit misuse. Anxiety interacted with time preference and unrealistic optimism such that present-oriented time preference was negatively related to credit misuse while optimism toward future income was positively related to credit misuse, but only for students with high anxiety levels. The findings of this study are discussed in the context of understanding and preventing irresponsible financial behavior among young adults.

A Prediction Model of Drug Misuse Behaviors in Community-Dwelling Older Adults (재가노인의 약물오용행위 예측모형)

  • Hong, Se Hwa;Yoo, Kwang Soo
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.46 no.5
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    • pp.630-641
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: This study was designed to construct a model which explains drug misuse behaviors in community-dwelling older adults. Methods: The design of this research is a cross-sectional study using structure equation modeling. The hypothetical model consisted of two types of variables: the exogenous variables of health status, cognitive ability, and negative emotion, and the endogenous variables of number of drugs, and drug misuse behaviors. The data collection was conducted from September 2 to September 21, 2013 through self-report questionnaires. Participants were 320 community-dwelling adults over the age of 65 living in J city. Data were analyzed with SPSS 21.0 program and Amos 18.0 program. Results: The results of the model fitness analysis were satisfied. The predictor variables for the hypothetical model explained 62.3% of variance regarding drug misuse behaviors. Drug misuse behaviors were directly affected by health status, cognitive ability, negative emotion and number of drugs and indirectly affected by health status, and negative emotion through number of drugs. Conclusion: These findings indicate factors that should be used in developing effective nursing interventions for safe and proper drug use and the prevention of drug misuse behaviors in community-dwelling older adults.

A Study of Security Rule Management for Misuse Intrusion Detection Systems using Mobile Agent (오용 침입탐지 시스템에서 모바일 에이전트를 이용한 보안규칙 관리에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Tae-Kyung;Lee, Dong-Young;Chung, Tai-M.
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.10C no.5
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    • pp.525-532
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    • 2003
  • This paper describes intrusion detection rule management using mobile agents. Intrusion detection can be divided into anomaly detection and misuse detection. Misuse detection is best suited for reliably detecting known use patterns. Misuse detection systems can detect many or all known attack patterns, but they are of little use for as yet unknown attack methods. Therefore, the introduction of mobile agents to provide computational security by constantly moving around the Internet and propagating rules is presented as a solution to misuse detection. This work presents a new approach for detecting intrusions, in which mobile agent mechanisms are used for security rules propagation. To evaluate the proposed approach, we compared the workload data between a rules propagation method using a mobile agent and a conventional method. Also, we simulated a rules management using NS-2 (Network Simulator) with respect to time.

Comparison on Frequency of Vocal Misuse and Abuse Behavior in Normal and Vocal Nodules Children (정상 아동과 성대 결절 아동의 음성 오용 및 남용 행동의 발생 빈도 비교)

  • Lee, Moo-Kyung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.11 no.9
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    • pp.429-436
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    • 2011
  • There have been several studies reporting that vocal misuse and abuse causes voice problems, as well as laryngeal disease such as laryngitis, vocal nodules, vocal polyp. But few researches have investigated amounts or rates of vocal misuse or vocal abuse of patients. Therefore, the author of this study developed measuring device for vocal misuse and abuse behaviors and compared frequency of vocal misuse and abuse behaviors of normal children and children with vocal nodules. The subjects of this study were five normal children and five children with vocal nodules who were male, lower graders of elementary schools(first to third graders). Based on the results of this study, the frequency of the children with vocal nodules in vocal misuse and abuse using was 5,411(${\pm}145$) and that of the normal children was 3,133(${\pm}257$). The frequency of vocal misuse and abuse behaviors of the children with vocal nodules was around 1.5 time significantly higher than that of normal children(p<.001).

A Study on the Improvement of Information Protection Policy to Prevent the Misuse of Personal Information : Based on the Results of the Monitoring Personal Information Misuse in Financial Companies (개인정보 오남용 예방을 위한 정보보호정책 개선에 관한 연구 : 금융회사의 개인정보 오남용 모니터링 결과 중심으로)

  • Kim, Young-ho;Kim, In-seok
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.1437-1446
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    • 2019
  • As a result of various personal information leakage incidents, the government implemented enhanced privacy protection measures, and financial companies are making efforts to periodically check whether personal information is misused according to government measures, but the problem of misuse of personal information is still not improved. The purpose of this study is to analyze the results of field experiments using the monitoring system for misuse of personal information and to suggest ways to improve the misuse problem. Based on the specific deterrence theory, this study examined the effects of misuse prevention according to the method of dealing with misusers, and analyzed the relationship between the duties of misusers and their years of service and misuse. It is expected that the analysis results of this study will be used for effective policy establishment.

Factors Associated with Drug Misuse Behaviors among Polypharmacy Elderly (다약제 복용 노인의 약물 오용 행위에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Lee, Jong-Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.554-563
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    • 2011
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors associated with drug misuse behaviors among polypharmacy elderly. Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey. Participants consisted of 116 polypharmacy elderly who were taking 5 or more medications each day. Data were collected via face to face interviews. Data were analyzed using the PASW 18.0 program. Data concerning predisposing factor (knowledge, benefit), enabling factor (communication with health care provider), and need factor (perceived health status, number of disease) were collected. Results: The total mean score of drug misuse behaviors among polypharmacy elderly was 3.04 out of 10 points. Communication with health care provider, perceived health status, and knowledge were found to be significantly correlated with drug misuse behaviors. In stepwise multiple regression analysis, a total of 42% of the variance in drug misuse behaviors was accounted for communication with health care provider, perceived health status, and knowledge. Conclusion: Therefore, education program for improving communication with health care provider, and knowledge should be designed and provided for polypharmacy elderly.

Effects of Image-Use Medication Education on Knowledge, Self-Efficacy, and Misuse of Medication in Elderly Inpatients (이미지 활용 약물교육이 노인환자의 약물지식, 복약자기효능감 및 복약오류에 미치는 효과)

  • Kim, Hyo Jung;Kim, Kon Hee
    • Journal of Korean Clinical Nursing Research
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.56-66
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: This quasi-experimental study was done to develop image-use medication education for older inpatients and to evaluate the effects on their knowledge, self-efficacy, and misuse of medication. Methods: Fifty nine elders (experimental group - 30, and control group - 29) received medication education once a week for 3 weeks. Data were collected before (pretest), right after (post 1), and 4 weeks after the program finished (post 2). Drug Use Knowledge Scale, Self-efficacy for Appropriate Medication Use Scale, and Drug Misuse Scale were used. Analysis included descriptive statistics, $x^2$ test, repeated measured ANOVA. Results: Findings showed significant differences in knowledge of medication and drug misuse between groups according to time(pretest, post 1, and post 2). At post 1 and post 2, knowledge and self-efficacy levels were significantly higher and misuse scores were lower in the experimental group compared to the control group. Conclusion: Findings indicate that elder-tailored medication education consisting of group education and individual guidance with images is effective and practical for medicine safety in elderly inpatients. Moreover, it could lead to a healthier life for elders, even elders with multiple chronic diseases and taking several medications.

The Causal Relationship between Information Security Countermeasures and Information System Misuse (정보보안대책과 정보시스템 오남용과의 인과적 관계)

  • Lee, Joontaik;Kim, Sanghoon
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.81-104
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    • 2015
  • Intentional information systems (IS) misuse is a serious problem in many organizations. This study aims at developing the theoretical framework of deterring IS misuse on the basis of Nagin's General Deterrence Theory (GDT) which is very famous in the area of socio-criminology. Applying GDT to the IS misuse situation could be reasoned that the perceived certainty and the perceived severity of sanctions associated with committing IS misuse have positive impact on deterring the deviant behaviors. Also, these two constructs (certainty of sanctions and severity of sanctions) could be inferred to be influenced by the four types of IS security countermeasures (security policies, security awareness program, monitoring practices and preventive security software) derived through critically reviewing IS security-relevant literature. The proposed research model and ten hypotheses were empirically analysed using structural equation modelling with the data collected by conducting a questionnaire survey of staff members in business organizations in Korea. As a result, it was found that five ones of ten hypotheses were supported. It is thought that this study makes theoretical contribution to expanding research area of IS security and also has strong implications for IS security management practices within organizations.

A Study on the Health Management of Polypharmacy Use in the Elderly

  • Choi, Keum-Bong
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.206-214
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to identify the level of polypharmacy use, drug knowledge, and drug misuse behavior in the elderly, and to understand the correlation between them and their effect on drug misuse behavior. The study design was a descriptive survey study, and the participants of the study were 215 elderly people from the local community center. The research tool used drug knowledge, drug misuse behavior, and the data collection period was from February 8 to 19, 2021. The data analysis were descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and regression analysis. As a result of the study, a significant correlation variable for the drug knowledge of the elderly showed a significant correlation with prescription and non-prescription, r=.145 (p<0.05), and r=.-. 136, which showed a negative significant correlation (p<0.05). As for the significant correlation variable in the drug misuse behavior of the elderly, when prescription and non-prescription were combined, there was a significant correlation with r=.256 (p<0.01), and when not using drugs, r=.-.225 was negative. showed a significant correlation (p<0.01). In terms of the effect on drug misuse behavior, chronic disease =.145, prescription and non-prescription use = .233, which had a positive effect, and non-prescription = -.328, indicating a negative and significant effect. The provision of education on the safe use of drugs by the elderly should first be provided in the community. In addition, we need systematic education and social support for the transmission of correct knowledge on multi-drug use by the elderly and for health management.